Captain Louie’s Fish Balls

Surprisingly springy and axenic successful their food flavor, these boiled Chiuchow-style balls are designed to beryllium served successful soup, but they’re bully arsenic hors d’oeuvres arsenic well. The old-school method calls for grinding and seasoning achromatic fish, past gathering the substance into a shot and repeatedly throwing/slapping it successful a mixing bowl; the method helps make the due texture. It makes a spot of a mess, with bits of food flying, truthful we urge utilizing a nutrient processor and basal mixer instead.

You tin usage a regular nutrient grinder (with a small-holed die) oregon grinder attachment connected a basal mixer alternatively of a nutrient processor. Shrimp whitethorn beryllium substituted for the fish.

Serve with soy condiment oregon chili oil.

The cooked food balls tin beryllium assembled, frozen separately connected a expanse successful the freezer, past frozen successful a zip-top container with arsenic overmuch aerial removed arsenic possible, for up to 1 month; defrost overnight successful the refrigerator.

Adapted from Louis Wu, laminitis of W&T Seafood successful New York.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

• Calories

  120

• Fat

  5 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  3 g

• Sodium

  290 mg

• Cholesterol

  55 mg

• Protein

  15 g

• Sugar

  2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Louis Wu, laminitis of W&T Seafood successful New York.

Tested by Tamar Haspel and Bonnie S. Benwick.